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The problem is community.
Lemmy doesn't fill every hole that reddit filled. There are a lot of industry and hobby subs that just don't have the audience here. Especially the more niche ones.
Shitposting and memes...yeah, we got that in spades. But that's not what keeps people coming. You can get top-notch shitposts anywhere.
My subscribeds here are dead. I can't find direct matches for communities I have in reddit, and I have no interest (let alone time) in modding one.
That is a critical mass thing. Reddit 15 years ago didn't have a thriving pokemon community either. Things grow naturally over time. I think Lemmy is in a good place :)
But, for example, on Reddit there is r/hockey and a sub for each team. On Lemmy those team subs are graveyards, but if you post on c/hockey you might get enough traction to have a conversation. Find the larger community and help grow that first before fracturing to smaller ones.
Yeah I suppose. I came on to reddit early, before there even were subreddits, and comparing young Lemmy to an over-the-hill reddit isn't a fair comparison.
Still feels like Lemmy tries to be a drop-in replacement for Reddit (sent from Boost for Lemmy), and it really can't be until it sees much, much more growth.
The internet as a whole is also different than it was 15+ year ago.
Your typical reddit user now doesn't know what digg is or who Kevin Rose is or the significance of something like 09 F9, sites, people, and events that were big things on the internet are just nothing now.
Hell, tons of users on reddit were literally babies when reddit was young.
We got Linux, don't forget Linux mate